Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-10


Orleans, is dead.
Many people are dying from starva-
| ton in Panama.
IN THE EAST.
The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America, had its annual session at
philadelphia, on the 9TH. A committee was
appointed to prepare plan for celebrating
the jubilee of Pope Leo XIII. It includes
the following: T. J. Mcguire Of Chicago;
diana; J. B. Thompson. Louisville; vii
| Scranton, Pa; N. o. O'Reilly, st. Paul; j.
A. Donnelly, Wisconsin. The annual cleo
ton of officers resulted: President, Rev.
vice president, Rev. Thomas E. Walsh, Of
Notre Dame college, Indiana; treasurer,
| Rev. Phillip A. Nolan of Philadelphia.
Rev. NJ Z. Murphy of Saltwater, Mimi,
was elected provincial vice president Of the
! Milwaukee district. The next meeting
Among the resolutions adopted was tue
| following: Resolved, AS an additional
means Of furthering our grand, our noble
| and holy undertaking, that the union re-
! commend to all the societies the formation
| of cadet corps and the semi-centennial cele-
pledge of our national temperance apostle,
Father Theodore Matthew.
At Lancaster, Pa, during the heavy
storm Monday night the barn of Elias Reist
in Penn township was struck by lightning
| and destroyed with the crops of60 acres and
several animals; loss $4,000 insured. Mrs.
looking at the fire dropped dead from OK
element: The bridge across the Port De-
posit railway at Octorara was washed
away. The barn of Henry Halter at Roth
vile was also destroyed, causing heavy
loss.
The first report of the commission,
composed of Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop Ksin
and Bishop Curtis, having charge of the
| Roman Catholic missions for the colored
people and the Indians, shows that the
total returns up to July 25 amounted to ST.
arch diocese of Philadelphia contributed
Sll,007, New York SS,l70, Boston $500.
Brooklyn S4,S76, Cincinnati s2,70O: These
missions were decreed by the third penary
council.
Mrs. Lille Schlimmer, aged 16, while
walking with her mother and grandmother
in Jersey City, N. j., Monday afternoon,
was murdered by her husband. The mar
riage of the child-wife had been agreed to
| by her parents on condition she should not
live with her husband for two years. He
had tried to persuade her to break the agree
ment and failing, murdered her. placing his
! pistol to her breast. The murderer fled.
Between and 5 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon terrific rain and hail storm and
cyclone passed over the region south of
| Knoxville, Pa, extending through the
edge of Deerfield township and Chatham.
Grain was leveled to the ground, and
many forest and orchard trees were torn
up by the roots. Great loss must be sus-
tanned by farmers in the track of this
devastating wind storm.
At Camden, N. j., w. w. Wiltshire,
aged 50, on Monday, killed his wife Ella,
aged AZ. and VIM. s. Darr Justice of the
!! Peace and rounded up the tragedy by
killing. himself. He had been sued BY his
aged 6, IL and Is years: The tragedy oc-
CURED at the office Of the Justice, and as
the wife was relating her tale Of abuse from
her husband.
The Vermont state grange of the
patrons Of husbandry have filed with the
interstate commerce commission COM
plant against thei Boston &: Lowell
connections for charging higher freight
rates between Boston and certain Yer
mont stations than between Boston and
Montreal on the Boston & Detroit.
A sloop yacht having on board a
party OF twelve business men of Philadel-
phia, set out Saturday for two weeks
down the Delaware river when a sudden
squat capsized the yatch, and Thos.
Kennedy prominent member OF the party
was drowned and also the colored cook.
The Castle Garden, New York, report
of immigration for July, makes the largest
July but one in the history Of immigration,
1854 people arrived against "a ,4o4 in July
!, the arrivals were 24o,599, against 17s, al
for the same period last year.
About 20 houses in Northampton
county and eight in Warren county, N. j.,
wero damaged by lightning Monday.
Many cellars were flooded by heavy rains.
The damage to streets and pavements in
is estimated at$l2,0o0.
Charles II. Reed, Guiteaus' lawyer,
followed up his exposure as hotel thief by
jumping into the North river at Jersey City
| Saturday morning. His suicidal Intentions
were frustrated by his being rescued and
afterwards locked up, charged with being
an insane person. 49,, ..@..
Buffalo, N. T., reports August 4, the
hottest day ever known in that city. In the
street, in the shade, at 10 o'clock the
thermometer 80 deg, and at g p. m: the
signal service officer recorded 90 $40 deg,
the highest since the establishment OF that
| bureau there. %1l
The st. James and Eastern hotels at
Dunkirk, N. Y, were totally destroyed by
fire on the 9Th, thought to- be incendiary
| work Loss S7k (l0 small insurance. ~ -.